Mindfulness in action
Subtitle: making friends with yourself through meditation and everyday awareness
By: Chögyam Trungpa ; compiled, arranged, and edited by Carolyn Rose Gimian
Contributors: Gimian, Carolyn Rose
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781611800203
Subjects: Meditation; Buddhism
Description: "How to practice mindfulness meditation and bring awareness into everyday life--from the best-selling author of many classic works on meditation. Mindfulness in Action is a book about meditation, about the practice and experience of mindfulness and awareness, and about how these meditative qualities influence our everyday lives. It is a practitioner's book: a book for people who want to practice meditation and also apply meditative insight to their lives. It includes practice instructions, as well as insights into the principles and aspects of meditation that are the foundations of mindfulness. Shaped for today's mindfulness audience, this book presents a broad, secular approach to meditation and teaches how to practice awareness to improve one's life"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Making friends with yourself. Meditation : an intimate relationship with ourselves ; Discovering our capacity to love ; How to meditate ; The teddy bear of breath ; Cool boredom ; Gentleness ; Rhinoceros and parrot ; The present moment ; The bridge of compassion; title: Foundations of mindfulness. First thought ; Appreciation ; Life force ; Spontaneous discipline ; Touching the surface of mind ; Recollection; title: Mindfulness in action. Touch and go ; Meditation and the Fourth Moment ; The sword in your heart ; Galaxies of stars, grains of sand ; The fringe of our emotions ; The heart of emotion ; A mindful society.